WORKERS WHO WILL BE PAID. NEW TONIGHT SOME FARMERS ARE SEEING LOSSES ON THEIR CORN CROP THIS SEASON. KCCI PEPPER TALKED WITH THE WOMAN TRACKING THE CROP DISEASE THAT’S CAUSING THIS PROBLEM. SHE SAYS ...

Nick Larson and a quarter of Iowa farmers get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. When ACA provisions expired at the end of 2025, Larson’s family faced an immediate tax increase of ...

OTTUMWA — In Derrick Hoodjer's belief, the farmers did it right. Some planted corn early, some others on their own timetable. All were hopeful. "The biggest thing is, and it's just my opinion a little ...

Iowa farmers could face economic disaster without the expanded ethanol and corn demand that comes with $5 billion carbon capture pipeline, groups say.

High levels of fungal disease are threatening corn crops across Iowa and the rest of the Midwest. The main diseases, southern rust and tar spot, arrived earlier and spread due to wet conditions. These ...

Iowa farmers are near the end of harvest season for corn and soybean crops following yet another week of above-average temperatures in the state.While crop progress and condition reports from the U.S.

Iowa farmers' corn, soybean harvest in 2025 set new records, despite derecho, disease and near-record rainfall, USDA says.

An unusually severe outbreak of southern rust has cut into corn yields across parts of Iowa this year, according to Iowa State University plant pathologist Alison Robertson. “I’ve been in Iowa for 21 ...